On 9/28/14, 1:39 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 12:57:17PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 9/28/2014 11:51 AM, bearophile wrote:
Walter Bright:
but do want to stop adding more autodecoding functions like the
proposed std.path.withExtension().
I am not sure that can work. Perhaps you need to create a range2 and
algorithm2 modules, and keep adding some autodecoding functions to
the old modules.
It can work just fine, and I wrote it. The problem is convincing
someone to pull it :-( as the PR was closed and reopened with
autodecoding put back in.
The problem with pulling such PRs is that they introduce a dichotomy
into Phobos. Some functions autodecode, some don't, and from a user's
POV, it's completely arbitrary and random. Which leads to bugs because
people can't possibly remember exactly which functions autodecode and
which don't.
I agree. -- Andrei
